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Vassouras, a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900: the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society

By Stanley J. Stein

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1985
ISBN
9780691076942, 9780691022369
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
86 MB (90104856 bytes)
Pages
336\356
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 06:23:50

Description

This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

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